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{{quote|'''Guitierrez''': Mm-hmm-hmm, ha ha ha ha ha! [[Trope Namer|Laugh with me]], Jocko... Laugh with me!
'''Jocko''': EEEEEEEEEE! EEEEEEEEEEEE!|''[[Freakazoid!]]''}}
The [[Big Bad]] has the princess locked in his tower, the hero is in a death trap, and he is moments away from taking over the world. He is surrounded by his minions so it's the perfect time for a little [[Evil Gloating]] followed by a nice, hearty [[Evil Laugh]]. He belts one out but stops once he realizes he is the only one laughing. He will immediately let his [[Mooks]] know, probably through verbal means, that they need to join in. Getting the message, the henchmen start laughing and continue to do so until it's okay to stop.
[[Ha Ha Ha No|Sometimes, the villain will tell them to shut up after a few moments.]]
This trope is typically [[Played for Laughs]] and is a parody of the [[Evil Laugh]] trope. Contrast the [["Everybody Laughs" Ending]], which may still seem contrived but isn't forced.
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* A non-[[Villain]] example in ''[[The Great Race]]'' when The Great Leslie and Hezekiah meet Crown Prince Hoepnick. The prince makes several jokes, each time gesturing for the crowd to laugh, which they dutifully do. At one point Hezekiah keeps laughing after every one else stops, until The Great Leslie [[Be Quiet Nudge|elbows him in the ribs]]. Watch it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z81NmslTo4 here, starting at 0:20].
* In ''[[Labyrinth]]'', Jareth the Goblin King laughs just before the "Dance Magic" sequence. He quickly notices that his goblins are not joining in and asks, "... Well?". The goblins start laughing, only for him to quiet them down for his song.
* In [[UHF (film)|UHF]], when [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|R.J. Fletcher]] starts laughing, the two managers under him realize, after a short pause, that they'd better start forcing themselves to laugh along with him.
* ''[[Evil Dead]] 2'': After a while of torturing Ash, [[Animate Inanimate Object|the entire house comes to life and starts laughing at him]]. [[Crazy Sane|Ash]] [[Laughing Mad|quickly gets swept up in it]], [[Dissonant Laughter|and not long after]] [[Despair Event Horizon|starts sobbing in pain]].
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** Earlier than that in the episode "Dalek", Van Statten's "in-tru-da window" joke is met with dead silence, to which he clarifies "In-tru-da window, that's ''funny!''" at which point his goons get the message and join in.
* In the [[DVD Commentary]], Ian Hislop suggests that part of the reason for Piers Morgan's notoriously awful appearance on ''[[Have I Got News for You]]'' was that as Editor of the Mirror he'd been able to enforce this trope, and consequently believed himself to be very funny. Notably, [[Epic Fail|he actually tries to bully the audience into this]], but since they're not his Mooks it obviously doesn't work.
* In ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', Raz goes to work for [[Insufferable Genius|Sheldon]]. Sheldon plays one of his awkward pranks on Raz and after informing him of the fact that he was joking, mentions, "I'm your boss now. You may want to laugh at that."
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots|MetalGearSolid4]]'': This is Laughing Octopus' [[Catch Phrase]].
* This trope is actually [[Played for Drama]] in [[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'s [[
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The [[Trope Namer]] comes from ''[[Freakazoid!]]''. The eponymous hero's eventual [[Evil Counterpart]], Guitierrez, would often laugh while surrounded by his cohorts. He would then gleefully tell them, "Laugh with me."
* ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'' has an inversion: Dr. Claw frequently punishes his cat for laughing with him.
* Smitus (in a ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]'' episode) monologues about his evil plan and then lets out an evil laugh, while his minions just stare. He gives them an icy glare and says, "You laugh too." The minions all start laughing themselves silly, so much so that they accidentally let the episode's [[Applied Phlebotinum]] out of their ship's airlock.
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* In ''[[Kick Buttowski]]'', [[Royal Brat|Gordon Gibble]] snaps his fingers every time he want his henchmen to laugh at something he just said. [[Insufferable Genius|Ronaldo]] demands the same thing from his pit crew the episode "Mellowbrook Drift". At one point he says: "Laugh harder!" On another occasion, he stops them, stating "It wasn't ''that'' funny!"
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'':
{{quote|[[Mook|Guard]] at the Boiling Rock: "Well, isn't that cute. ([[Beat]]) I ''said,'' isn't that cute?"
[[Anti-Hero|Zuko]]: "Um, yes! Very cute, sir."
[[The Smart Guy|Sokka]]: "''Super'' cute." }}
* In ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'', there is a boss man who wants to capture LIVE Rainbow Monkeys and do some horrible thing with/to them that is never mentioned:
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